Legal Opinion
Cortellesso v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 21, 1968PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhittemore, J.
The issues on this petition for writ of error are reported by a single justice, without decision, on the pleadings, the return, the findings, and the transcript of evidence at the trial in the Superior Court in September, 1962, at which the defendant was convicted of possession of burglarious tools with intent to use them.
The petitioner contends that he was deprived of Federal constitutional rights in being required to proceed to trial without adequate assistance of counsel and in being convicted on illegally seized evidence, that is, the burglarious tools. He specifies that newly engaged…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by13 opinions
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